Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation
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- 18 décembre 2018
As a new year opens across the globe, the post-Second-World-War order and the global rule of law are losing out to the rule of individual men. From Russia to China to the EU, authoritarian rule is tightening its grip.
In …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThe Munk Leaders’ Debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but at many times it was really about a three-man horse race. That race was about which progressive horse could finish first, or whether the conservative horse would end …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in the Toronto Star, February 2, 2015
When a prime minister announces one of the most draconian anti-terrorism bills in his nation’s history — and does this not in the national legislature, but at an election-type campaign stop …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in iPolitics, October 7, 2014
For starters, let’s stop calling them Islamic State. As President Barack Obama has pointed out, the mass murderers in black cutting a bloody trail through Iraq and Syria are neither truly Islamic nor …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished on National Newswatch, September 22, 2014
In the week of September 22, 2014, Stephen Harper will address the UN General Assembly, the global forum that not only he has shunned in his almost nine years of office but …
EN SAVOIR PLUSA previous version of this essay was published in the Huffington Post on March 18, 2014
When the history of the early decades of the 21st century is written, it may well be called the era of multiple clashing …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in the Huffington Post Canada, September 16, 2013
William Faulkner’s most brilliant insight was his quip that « The past is never dead, it is not even past. » It is the past that is now befuddling the …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in the Globe and Mail, July 1, 2013
The trip to East Africa with an attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro was a check off my bucket list. But the professional lessons I learned from that trip were also …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in the Globe and Mail, May 1, 2013
If the United States becomes convinced that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has started using chemical weapons against its own citizens, the “red line” set down by President Barack Obama will have …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in iPolitics, April 9, 2013
A little more than two weeks ago, Canada became the only nation on the planet to walk away from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
The decision to withdraw — making Canada the …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPublished in the Globe and Mail, March 5, 2013
The reputations of Canadian companies operating abroad are under serious attack. The attention of governments and the global private sector is being drawn to recent headlines such as “SNC bribery …
EN SAVOIR PLUS2013 will see the UN and many countries around the world celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It should also be the year that we celebrate a Canadian law professor, John Humphrey, who as …
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